This is clevera and useful.

Im sorry, this thing just reeks of BS. I have a feeling someone is board and felt like teasing the rhodium markets.

Michael? how board do you think they are? perhaps very bored?

\"Professor Hiroshi Kitagawa and his team used nanotechnology to combine rhodium and silver to produce an alloy with similar properties to palladium, which is located between rhodium and silver on the periodic table.\"

This is a most important discovery. The title is not accurate because the individual components of the alloy retain their same number of protons (the factor which identifies an element). However, the effect of the alloy as being able to replace palladium is important in terms of manufacturing products requiring this rare and valuable element.

Bill Bennett: To be grammatically correct, you should use a capital letter after a question mark, and there should not be a question mark after \'Michael\'. Probably a colon. Then followed by a capital letter. Come to think of it, you should say \'he is\' and not \'they are\'. To continue: Michael, the word \'Im\' should be I\'m. Call me pedantic!

windy you are pedantic

Don\'t see how their goal is going to work- all the elements next to the rare earths are rare earths except Barium and Hafnium and Hafnium is nearly as valuable as it usually used with Zirconium (\"alloy\"). Hafnium and Zirconium are difficult to separate and used in Chemical plants.

This article is badly written. It can\'t be an alloy of palladium if it doesn\'t have palladium in it. It\'s an analog of palladium.

Quoting \"Michael? how board do you think they are? perhaps very bored?\"
Maybe they just have a board foot?

The interesting part is when they use the same method for neighbouring elements with very differing properties.